Hope springs eternal for the consummate angler, and the more things you can look at through the lens of an angler surveying a piece of water, the better you will be at seeing the best of things during the worst of times. This is not to say that the news wasn’t a let down. It felt like a huge part of my life had just evaporated overnight.

With millions of pristine, wild and remote wilderness on the Alaska Peninsula, it’s easy to find a moment of solace, socially distant from the daily pavement-grind.

You can’t fully comprehend how remote Alaska Wilderness SAFARI is until you take the ~1.5 hour charter flight from King Salmon to camp. The journey over and through the rugged Aleutians Mountains along the distant Pacific coast of the Alaska …

Social gatherings in remote Alaska are encouraged. Well, at least, in normal years.